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...seven years. It is lavishly illustrated with pictures of towns and old chateaux and provides what was called "a synthesis of France past and present." The preface is in two parts, one written by M. Poincare, the other by Foreign Minister Aristide Briand. In it Marshals Foch, Joffre, Petain, Lyautey, Franchet d'Esperey, pay tribute to the military virtues of the Commonwealth armies. And there are messages from President Gaston Doumergue, onetime Premier Georges Clemenceau and many another French notable, as well as some poems by the Countess Mathieu de Noailles. The book ends with a drawing by Jean Louis...
Sheep. Impoverished at home, France is more and more turning her hopeful attention to the North African empire carved and welded for her by Marshal Lyautey. Africa was a central theme at the meeting last week of the French Association for the Advancement of Science. Alfred Lacroix, the Association's president, described the part scientists must play in developing Tunis, Algeria, Morocco, Senegambia, Niger, Guinea. The Association voted to hold its 1927 meeting in Constantine, Algeria. Dr. Serge Voronoff, famed gland man, reported the latest progress of his gland-grafting experiments upon 3,000 Algerian sheep (TIME...
Said Marshal Lyautey, retiring French Resident General in Morocco, as he landed at Marseilles: "All's well in Morocco! That's all I can say. I am no longer responsible for anything there...
...Just 12 years ago every white inhabitant of Fez was massacred; Lyautey punished the guilty, restored order...
tLike "Tiger" Clemenceau and Caillaux, Marshal Lyautey is the living embodiment of the relentlessly active proconsuls of Roman times. He is never still. Rising at 6:30, it is his custom to work restlessly through a long day, conferring with his subordinates even at dinner, making plans late in the evening. His friends wonder if he will "break" with the sudden lifting of the pressure of affairs...